RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, HAMILTON. Thursday, 21st October.—[Before H. W. Northcroft, Esq., R.M.]

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1298, 23 October 1880, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, HAMILTON. Thursday, 21st October.— [Before H. W. Northcroft, Esq., R.M.]

Civil Side. Burton (collector to the Newcastle Highway Board), v. Day. — Application for leave to appeal against the decision {riven on the previous day tvaa made by Mr S. Hesketh, on behalf of defendant. — Mr O'Neill, for plaintiff, opposed it, on the grounds that in all probability the matter would be settled amicably; *and, if not, that defendant mijrht be ousted under the Highway Bo.irda Empowering: Act, 1871, sec. 27, which would be inexpensive. On tho other hand, the appeal would be very costly. — Permission granted, on Bocurity for cost (£3O) being deposited in Court, and execution was stayed.

A Domestic Broil. Jackson v. Jackson.— This case created considerable interest and amusement in Court, but it is not of public interest.— The case was adjourned until next Court day (November 3), to allow parties to come t© some arrangement before that date.

Just the Difference— A Greenwich coal-lip.aver, recently charged with neglecting his five children, remarked that he "could not carry them about in his jjocket." Of course not. What the authorities want him to do is "tokeop them" out of his own pochrt. — Funint l'Olh'B,